Prerequisite Knowledge

Materials or downloads needed in advance

Attendees will need a GitHub account, and a working meteor.js install on their machine.

Description

Learn what Meteor.js is, why you might want to use it, and how to get started. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce Meteor.js and a host of other technologies, which can be used to build a simple web app that can then be built into a native app using Meteor/Cordova integration.

We will cover concepts such as MongoDB and 2d sphere searches, Google API integration, and building a mobile responsive interface. As Meteor integrates Cordova as a first level player in its platform, we can easily marry all these components together and package a great mobile app that one could submit to the app store.

The technology is great for rapid prototyping, but most people tend to underestimate how good it is now that Meteor 1.0 is out. Come and learn about it firsthand, so you can evaluate this great new emerging platform for yourself.

Josh Owens

Meteor Club

Josh Owens is the proprietor of Crater.io, host of Meteor Podcast, and an open source czar that helped create over 10 Meteor packages and 40 apps in 12 months. He is also the author of Testing with Meteor and part of the Velocity core team, helping to make testing more practical with Meteor. When he is not writing, podcasting, or teaching, then you can find him running the Cincinnati Meteor meetup or helping people with Meteor.js over Airpair.